Meanings
- uncountablebiologyA hydroxyketone synthesized by Clione species as a defense against being eaten.
... provided a polypropionate-derived natural product, pteroenone (Figure 3.7), with strong feeding deterrence against fish predators […] Structure of pteroenone from the pteropod Clione limacina. (Yoshida et al.
2018 August 30, Melany P. Puglisi, Mikel A. Becerro, Chemical Ecology: The Ecological Impacts of Marine Natural Products, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1053 more examples
A B - hydroxy ketone ("pteroenone") with the formula CH40, has been reported to be the chemical defense compound (McClintock and Baker, 1998). Pteroenone causes a significant feeding deterrence in the Antarctic fishes[…]
2001, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology: Biochemistry & molecular biologyEmploying flash and high-pressure liquid chromatographic (HPLC) techniques, pteroenone (Figure 5.2), a linear β-hydroxyketone and the first example of a defensive secondary metabolite from a pelagic gastropod, was isolated from tissues[…]
2001 June 13, James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, Marine Chemical Ecology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 207In a bioassay-guided structure elucidation, pteroenone could be isolated and characterized as the main defensive principle of C. antarctica [82,83]. If embedded in alginate, this compound is a feeding-deterrent[…]
2004 October 22, Tetsu Ando, The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals I, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 195
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